Not So Black and White
A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics
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A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.
Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?
The ‘culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of ‘race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world. In doing so, leading thinker Kenan Malik upends many assumptions underpinning today's heated debates around race, culture, whiteness and privilege.
Malik interweaves this history of ideas with a parallel narrative: the story of the modern West's long failed struggle to escape ideas of race, leaving us with a world riven by identity politics. Through these accounts, he challenges received wisdom, revealing the forgotten history of a racialised working class, and questioning fashionable concepts like cultural appropriation.
Not So Black and White is both a lucid history rewriting the story of race, and an elegant polemic making an anti-racist case against the politics of identity.
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In The Case for Nationalism, Lowry explains how nationalism was central to the American Project. It fueled the American Revolution and the ratification of the Constitution. It preserved the country during the Civil War. It led to the expansion of the American nation’s territory and power, and eventually to our invaluable contribution to creating an international system of self-governing nations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truth does matter !
- De CFC en 11-06-19
De: Rich Lowry
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Stony the Road
- Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
- De: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 342
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Valuable examination of Jim Crow and Rise of White Supremacy in America
- De William J Brown en 05-14-19
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Fascism: The Career of a Concept
- De: Paul Gottfried
- Narrado por: Kevin Moriarty
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43
What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refreshing scholarly treatment of a widely misused concept
- De Minister of the Posterior en 01-15-24
De: Paul Gottfried
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A Thousand Small Sanities
- The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
- De: Adam Gopnik
- Narrado por: Adam Gopnik
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Erudite and entertaining!
- De D. A. Vail en 05-20-19
De: Adam Gopnik
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The War on History
- The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past
- De: Jarrett Stepman
- Narrado por: Chris Abell
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 776
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 697
America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of our civilization and bind the generations are being severed, attacked, and forgotten. The left has set out to shatter these bonds with a war on American history - the fundamental concepts, institutions, and icons that make our country what it is. And we have failed to protect our history, allowing Hollywood, educators, and the media to rewrite the story of America. We have ignored the invaluable lessons of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Culture war, not history
- De J. Pulton en 03-08-21
De: Jarrett Stepman
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Debunking the 1619 Project
- Exposing the Plan to Divide America
- De: Mary Grabar
- Narrado por: Liisa Ivary
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
According the New York Times’ “1619 Project”, America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the “1619 Project” argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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the ultimate downplay
- De Stephen Alston en 01-09-22
De: Mary Grabar
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Four Hundred Souls
- A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- De: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, Keisha N. Blain - editor
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,267
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,112
A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the 400-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present - edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History never taught
- De Scott P ODonnell en 02-16-21
De: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, y otros
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Age of Anger
- A History of the Present
- De: Pankaj Mishra
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 252
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the 18th century before leading us to the present.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De AR en 04-28-17
De: Pankaj Mishra
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Racecraft
- The Soul of Inequality in American Life
- De: Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A loose collection of essays
- De Texas Mama en 11-18-21
De: Karen E. Fields, y otros
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Democracy Matters
- Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
- De: Cornel West
- Narrado por: Cornel West
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach, and an inspiring call for a resurgence of the deep democratic tradition in our country, which has waged war on the forces of imperialist corruption throughout our history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written, a refreshing voice of inspiration
- De Gabriel en 07-06-05
De: Cornel West
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- De: Paul Ortiz
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 402
Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I had to return
- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
De: Paul Ortiz
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Identity
- The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 646
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 634
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robotic narrator
- De Shahin en 09-19-18
De: Francis Fukuyama
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
- Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
- De: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 119
Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great if you can bear the narration
- De Tintin en 09-13-21
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The Battle for God
- A History of Fundamentalism
- De: Karen Armstrong
- Narrado por: Lisa Armytage, Karen Armstrong
- Duración: 22 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 49
In the late 20th century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most important book you haven’t read yet
- De D. A. Vail en 12-29-20
De: Karen Armstrong
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- De: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, y otros
- Narrado por: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Duración: 18 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,589
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,989
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,972
The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project” issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together 18 essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with 36 poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- De Thomas Ray en 12-30-21
De: Nikole Hannah-Jones, y otros
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The Light That Failed
- Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
- De: Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political history, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of Communism turned out to be only the beginning of the age of the autocrat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great text
- De Safronov en 05-03-21
De: Ivan Krastev, y otros